Adobe Acrobat and other PDF Processors

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This page should contains the information of PDF related software, mainly Adobe Acrobat. The following links from Open Directory may help the future work.

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• PDF Zone   - An online hub for all things Acrobat and PDF. Plugins, utilities, useful tips, newsletters, and other information.
• Planet PDF   - A world of PDF news, resources, tools, articles, newsletters, developer resources, online store and presented by PDF guru Aandi Inston.

• Acrobat PDF Publishing for Middle Eastern Languages - Adobe Acrobat-ME is a web-publishing tool for displaying Arabic and Hebrew for the Internet and CD distribution.
• Acrobat PDF Training Resources - Tutorials, tips, tricks and resources for training on Adobe Acrobat Exchange, Distiller, Reader, and forms.
• Acrobat Training Videos - Self paced training videos for Adobe Acrobat.
• activePDF - Windows programs for PDF mangement.
• Adobe Acrobat - Official Home - The Acrobat main site at Adobe. All about the Portable Document Format (PDF), with many PDF-related links and resources.
• Adobe Acrobat Access - Tool that allows blind and visually impaired users to read any document in Adobe PDF format.
• Adobe ePaper Products - Adobe's product guide for their ePaper solutions, including Acrobat product guide, technologies, third-party plugins, Acrobat Reader for Palm OS, server solutions and more.
• Advanced PDF Password Recovery - Software to decrypt protected Adobe Acrobat PDF files (with standard security handler or FileOpen plug-in). Decryption is performed instantly and can operate in a batch mode.
• ARTS - A Round Table Solution - Specialists in Portable Document Format (PDF) software development.
• Convert Zone - Adobe Acrobat plug-in to convert pdf files to other formats.
• Create Adobe PDF Online - A Web-hosted service that can convert a wide variety of documents, including WordPerfect, Word and other Microsoft Office, web pages, PostScript or most image formats, into Adobe PDF files. Free trial.
• CreoScitex - Intense Products - Developers of plugins, such as Pagelet, PDF Embedder, PDF Seps2Comp, and PDF Seps2Comp with S2C Plateview, and Powertone.
• Digital Delivery - Secure electronic software and information distribution. Prevents unauthorised reading and copying of files.
• Encrypted PDFs - Modifications to GhostScript to allow it to read encrypted files.
• Estari - DocAble Organizer - Developers of DocAble Organizer, documentation management software for PDF, Word, Excel, RTF, and PowerPoint files.
• FastIO Systems - Developers of ClibPDF,a library of ANSI C functions for creating files via C language programs without Acrobat tools, and TIFF2PDF, a command line program that converts TIFF files.
• FastPDF - Free online conversion. Converts Microsoft Word files without any software installation or configuration.
• FileOpen Systems Inc. - An affordable plugin to Adobe Acrobat that helps ensure that a digital publication is not redistributed or uploaded to another website.
• Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview - An interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF, and related software and documentation.
• Guaranteed Pdf Decryptor - A utility to decrypt any password-protected PDF files with guarantee, regardless of password used.
• Guru's Lair - This library shelf gives you the key tutorials and utilities you'll need to use and apply net-friendly Acrobat 3.0.
• Iceni Technology - Makers of advanced PDF extraction, conversion, indexing, print ad display extraction tools. Products extract text and images in a variety of useful formats including HTML, RTF, WML, JPEG & BMP. Transform tables into SYLK, RTF or HTML and convert hyperlinks, articles threads and more.
• Jaws Systems Ltd. - Developer of PostScript interpreters and PDF software tools and technologies to enable you to convert, write and deliver PostScript, HTML, images and other documents.
• jPDF - Pure Java PDF viewer. Useful if Acrobat Reader is not available on your platform.
• Kyler Laird's PDF utilities - Includes tips on removing security protections from files.
• Lantana Research Software - Developers of plugin tools for creating layers, increasing form usability, color production printing, image editing.
• Merlin Open Systems - Developer of cross-platform Adobe Acrobat plugins.
• Neevia Technology - Developer of software products for document conversion, pdf generation and online printing.
• Online PDF Tools - Convert documents online for viewing and printing, supports more than 280 formats.
• PDF Converter - Submit documents online to be returned as PDF.
• PDF Creator - Sells the 5-Minute PDF Creator, an Adobe Acrobat tutorial and self-publishing guide.
• PDF ePrinter - Application for PowerPC-based Macintosh that converts spooled print jobs into a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
• PDF Find and Print - A plug-in for Acrobat Reader version 4.x, that will batch print PDF files with automatic printer selection based upon document dimensions. Provide user manual online.
• PDF Machine - Windows printer driver to create PDF files.
• PDF Research Companion - A designer's guide to the Portable Document Format; site provides large amount of links, resources, articles, case studies and more on Acrobat, Capture and FrameMaker.
• PDF Showcase - A weekly Web feature that highlights users and uses of Adobe Acrobat and PDF.
• PDF Solutions - Clonelinks plugin for Adobe Acrobat 4, allowing easy copying of attributes between PDF links.
• PDF to All - Adobe Acrobat plug-ins to convert or merge PDF files.
• PDFCheck.com - An online preflight service, designed to provide a print ready file transmitted direct into the system at Cradley Digital Imaging
• PDFlib - An ANSI C library to dynamically generate PDF files.
• PDFzone Acrobat PDF Ring - The PDFzone Acrobat PDF ring connects some of the best sites showcasing uses of Adobe Acrobat and portable document format files
• Planet PDF - Acrobat Forms and FDF - Adobe Acrobat allows you to create electronic forms that maintain your organisation's branding. You can either design and create a new form. Or you can convert your existing paper forms to PDF, and then add PDF form fields.
• Planet PDF - Developers Section - Lists of Acrobat and PDF-related developer resources, including code and program samples of plug-ins, JavaScript, Forms & FDF and more.
• Planet PDF - PDF Resources - A comprehensive list of PDF resources, exclusively focused on Adobe Acrobat, PDF, its users and uses.
• Planet PDF - Tools List - Search or browse more than 500 Adobe Acrobat PDF tools and plug-ins Find the PDF-related tool to solve your problem or meet a deadline. Hundreds of tools to choose from. Browse by the category lists below, or just do a search.
• Planet PDF News: Archive of Newsletters - An archive of all the PDF-related news we have published since the beginning of 1999. The news is archived periodically and is based on the Planet PDF Newsletter.
• Planet PDF Store - Entire range of PDF software online. Buy or try the latest plug-ins, applications, and tools.
• Plant PDF Forum - A worldwide forum association of developers and users sharing tips, tools, and information.
• ps2pdf - A work-alike for nearly all the functionality (but not the user interface) of Adobe Acrobat Distiller product: it converts PostScript files to PDF files.
• PS2PDF.com - the online distiller - Free online Postscript to Acrobat file converter. It uses AFPL Ghostscript to converts a user supplied Postscript file to PDF file. Site provides FAQs, help files.
• PStill - a shareware PostScript to PDF converter.
• Quite Software - Developers of plugins, such as Quite A Box Of Tricks, Quite Imposing, and Quite RGBGone.
• SANFACE Software: PDF converters - Perl developers of conversion to PDF utilities, including txt2pdf, txt2pdf PRO, jpg2pdf, jpg2pdf, data2pdf products, few freeware and some free service.
• Ted Padova's Acrobat Site - Home of the author of Acrobat 5.0 PDF Bible, site contains tips, resources, and publications.
• Transverter Pro - A multi-function utility that enables users to take control of PostScript and PDF files for professionals in service bureaus, prepress houses and related graphics and publishing fields.
• Wekasoft - PDF2HTM is commerical software that converts PDF documents into HTML.
• xPDF - A file viewer that runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

• Adobe Acrobat: The Killer App of Online Publishing - Mike Lee explains why he's in love with Adobe Acrobat as a way to publish in digital format. (January 15, 1998)